Touch, Haptic Perception, & the Somatosensory Cortex

In this video I describe touch sensation and haptic perception, which refers to exploring the world by grasping. I outline the types of receptor in the skin including mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, and nocireceptors, and then discuss how signals are mapped out according to sensitivity in the somatosensory cortex of the parietal lobe. This mapping research was initially conducted by Wilder Penfield … Read More